The house

THE HOUSE
EORUM MEMORIÆ QUI DOMUM ET ÆDIFICA VERUNT ET SALVAM SERVAVERUNT SACRUM
HENRY BORDEAUX
Author of “The Parting of the Ways,” “The Woollen Dress,” “The Fear of Living,” “Footprints Beneath the Snow.”
Translated by Louise Seymour Houghton
Omne regnum divisum contra se desolabitur; et omnis civitas vel domus divisa contra se non stabit. —Matt. XII., 25.
NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1914
Copyright, 1915, by PLON-NOURRIT & COMPANY Copyright, 1914, by DUFFIELD & COMPANY
“WHERE are you going?”
“Oh, up to the house.”
Put this question to little girls and boys that you see along the country roads, on their way from school or coming in from the fields, and you will get this answer.
Their bright eyes glisten like grass after a shower; their speech, unless they are timid, shoots straight out, like plants that claim all space to grow in undisturbed.